On this day in 1580, what was arguably the Greatest Escape concluded when the pirate Chieftain Free Bird arrived back to the arms of Gloriana, after eluding the Evil Empire by very cleverly circumnavigating the Earth While it is inarguable the adjective in the pirates native name was Free, some assert his last name is more properly Duck, while the Emperor of the ravaged Neuvo Mundo, Pililipo, offered a reward of $4,000,000 kleptodollars for the of the pirate he called The Dragon in Flight! This is not a contrafactual. It is personal idiom, based on my life long tendency to translate words into American native style. I knew French meant free and a Drake was a duck, if not a Drac, the rest followed. What I always found neat is a casual joke of Dads I took far too seriously. Both Angle Land in the Southwest of Britain and the alleged homeland in Schleswig-Holstein were allegedly so named after their shape, as being literally the Angle-shaped land and the land in the Angles of the Sea. I think HG Wells also asserted that, and am sure I have read that elsewhere, but I am pretty sure Dad was unique in (jocularly?) saying that the English were destined to rule the world by their propensity to think in terms of math! youtube/watch?v=ZWKQVONs0fo
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:08:17 +0000
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